Proddy
Proddy Pillow – Prodded & Wide Cut Hooking
Pattern: Primitive Rose #440, from Harry M. Fraser Co., Size 15”x15”
I adapted this primitive pattern in a bouquet of three different flowers. I used the Prodded technique and the guide lines from Gene Shepherd’s book: “Prodded Hooking for Three-Dimensional Effect”.
The pale pink “tea rose” and the silver grey “dahlia” are basically identical from the ones showed in Gene Shepherd’s book, but my third flower is a combination of the petals of a “peony” and hooked as an “old-fashioned wild rose”.
I didn’t want to apply the rug hooking technique for the leaves, so I decided to work with two different shades of lemon green wool, cutting three sets of two pairs of leafs, each leaf approximately 2.5” long, following the same technique applied to cut the flower’s petals (in pairs).
The edge of the leaves have a zigzag effect because, instead of using a regular scissors, I used a “7.5” pinking shears scissors.
To give a firm shape to each leaf, I glued a piece of “cloth stem wire” gauge 22 on the back of the leaf, in the center, from top to bottom. Then I molded the wire of each leaf giving each one a different curly appearance.